Daily Archives: July 12, 2012

Drip Drip Drip …

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David Corn says Romney Invested Millions in Chinese Firm That Profited on US Outsourcing. This is especially significant since Mittens’s latest counter-attack against the President is that “President Obama’s policies have encouraged American jobs to move overseas,” and the reasoning behind that claim is that Obama hasn’t been tough enough on China.

I don’t think Mittens can win a game of “I’m rubber you’re glue” against President Obama, except among the rabid right base. Romney looks like a big ol’ pile of glue to me.

Steve M points to a new Romney ad that tries to make the President seem sinister and nasty.

The problem is that polls show that most Americans like Obama — more people like him than approve of how he’s doing his job. Voters in the middle who are wary of how he’s doing his job think he’s at least a decent well-meaning, guy; Team Romney seems to think it can overcome that impression, developed over three and a half years of a presidency and two years of campaigning before that, in a mere four months — the point being, apparently, to get swing voters to see Obama as the sinister thumb-breaking, thuggish Chicago pol/Hillary-hating sexist pig of wingnut/PUMA legend. It’s as if no one on Romney’s campaign can even imagine what it feels like to be merely disappointed by Obama rather than repulsed.

Is it just me, or is the Romney campaign playing defense? And rather badly? If Mittens himself were particularly charming he might get away with this, but he isn’t. The man’s got less charm than roach bait.

Update: Michael Tomasky on Mitt Romney the Race Baiter at the NAACP

Mittens Spills the Beans

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Mittens has said he expected to be booed when he said he would repeal Obamacare.

Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he “expected” the negative response to his address earlier in the morning at the NAACP convention in Houston, where he was booed after vowing to repeal President Obama’s signature healthcare law.

“We expected that,” the presumptive GOP presidential nominee told Fox Business Network’s Neil Cavuto in a interview set to air later in the day. “I am going to give the same message to the NAACP that I give across the country, which is that ObamaCare is killing jobs, and if jobs is the priority, we are going to have to replace it with something that actually holds down healthcare costs, as opposed to something that causes more spending for the government and more spending for American families.”

Never mind there is no evidence “Obamacare” is “killing jobs”; never mind there is evidence it already is slowing the rise in health care costs and will save the taxpayer’s money — would it have killed him to say “Affordable Care Act” instead of “Obamacare”? It’s one thing to say he disagrees with the President’s policies, but outright ridicule is just asking for it. And of course, Mittens was asking for it.

He said later of his audience at the NAACP, “If they want more free stuff from the government, tell them to vote for the other guy.” Yeah, them black folks just want the government to take care of them. Where have we heard that before?

Even George W. Bush wasn’t that blatantly racist.

Update: Mittens lied about when he left Bain. Next: New reports say sky is blue, grass green.